TWO men were arrested at a New York airport for smuggling cocaine in a Baileys bottle.
The men were named as Dutchman Gerald Pantophlet, 30, and American Sherman Myers, 28, from Brooklyn, New York.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested the men on Tuesday, reports The New York Post.
They had been on an incoming flight from the Caribbean island of St Maarten when officers found four pounds of liquid cocaine in a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream.
Pantophlet claimed the bottle was given to him by a friend on the island and that he planned to deliver it to his uncle in Brooklyn.
He allegedly hid it in luggage belonging to Myers, who works for the New York City Housing Authority and is a U.S. citizen.
Pantophlet and Myers were arraigned and both released on $50,000 bond at a Brooklyn Federal Court arraignment Tuesday.
Cocaine has become more popular to smuggle in liquid form as it is easily transportable and less easy to detect.
